Anyone seen a good movie lately?

[General_Failure]

If you read TLotR, let me know if you can get through the Tom Bombadil section.

[rjs246]

If you read TLotR, let me know if you can get through the Tom Bombadil section.

Haha, I love those books but that section of the story is without a doubt the worst shtein I've ever read.

[SD_Eagle5]

If you read TLotR, let me know if you can get through the Tom Bombadil section.

That Jackson didn't touch on his character in the film was the biggest omission from the books in my opinion. I'm not saying he had to spend a half hour on him but a 10 minute scene with Bombadil bailing them out would have been fine.

[Diomedes]

I loved Tolkien, from The Hobbit through the trilogy.  And I liked the Tom Bombadil side story in Fellowship of the Ring quite a lot.  Of course, I also like the chapter on the whiteness of the whale in Moby Dick, and even to a certain degree the catalog of ships in The Iliad.  I draw the line at the begats in the Bible and as previously mentioned, John Galt's tedious unending sermon in Atlas Shrugged.

[BigEd76]

Meet the Spartans - all of the spoof movies are brutal but I've seen 300 and this had a mostly-naked Carmen Electra in it, so I gave it a chance.  The best thing about it was that it was only 70 minutes.  Check it out for a few minutes if you liked 300, then turn it off and stab your eyes repeatedly.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Ed's getting a little bit more of an edge to him.

[stalker]

Has anyone seen "Defiance"? It looks interesting.

[The BIGSTUD]

Man on Wire:

One of the better documentaries I've seen. It keeps you hooked and even though you already know the outcome, it still manages to be suspenseful and give the movie a heist type feel. Also, you just gotta love the main character Phillipe. Dude's the man.

good farging watch/10

[Feva]

Taken = 5/10

Liam Neeson was pretty good. He's a retired CIA/intelligence/black ops guy whose daughter is kidnapped in Paris and he goes and gets her back. I had no real expectations going in other than wanting to see a decent flick and it achieved that for me.

I really liked it.  More than anything, because it didn't try to be anything more than it was.  It is EXACTLY what the trailer says it is.  A guy goes to get his daughter back and kills a lot of people along the way... not really giving a shtein about anything or anyone else.  It's a good way to spend an hour and a half, (another good thing about it) where you just want to chill and watch an action movie.

3.5/5

[rjs246]

Watched East of Eden last night. It was alright. The fact that James Dean was a heartthrob and has morphed, posthumously, into a poster boy for our country's gay population is utterly unsurprising. His 'tortured soul' acting comes across as incredibly mincing 50 years later. The story is great but the production smacked of a high school musical, again, a trait of movies made in the 50s. The production is actually made more noticeable because the movie was in color. If it had been shot in black and white I doubt I would have even noticed, but whatever. Anyway, this was an award winner when it came out and I understand why, but it only told about 1/3 of the story from the book and hasn't held up all that well over time.

[ice grillin you]

reading fiction novels >>>> watching pre 1960 movies

[Seabiscuit36]

There is a movie on the site that i download stuff called Vampire Hookers.  Got a rating of 1.9/10 on IMDB, it was made back in 1978 and involves much boobage, im gonna give it a whirl

[Zanshin]

The premise alone should give it a 5/10.

[Seabiscuit36]

http://jalopnik.com/5140532/roadside-ass+sistance-a-hilarious-take-on-clich-garage-porno

Sasha Grey....

[rjs246]

reading fiction novels >>>> watching pre 1960 movies

You're so cultured.